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Who does this guy think he is? He installs a bunch of dumb clowns at Treasury who are continually getting pantsed by incompetent bankers, and at the height of the shitstorm he gets on a plane to California — but not before recording another one of his “Join my movement by harassing your neighbors about Hope, and my Budget” videos. Sorry bro people will not campaign for your budget when they are too infuriated about the economy to even get off the motherfucking couch. [Organizing for America]
Must follow Dear Leader’s orders?
What does he think we are, Scientologists?
Just so you know. Hopey, we’re slowly but surely running out of Kool-Aid here.
When in doubt, SEND MO’ MONEY!
I know this is going to sound brash and naive - but what if these fat fuck executives stepped up and said, “You know, as honorable Americans who helped bring this country’s economy to its bloody knees, we feel it is only fair to end this whole ordeal by foregoing our bonuses.” Would they starve to death?
Can’t knock. Door removed by copper thieves. Fail.
My drunken neighbor was harassing me at 1:30AM when he passed out with the sterio on full volume. I guess he was just part of Barry’s Army.
I’m tired of him. I want a new president.
The mutherfuckin’ couch? How’d you make it all the way the fuck there? I’m still in bed, and not planning on getting out for a loooong time. I’ve got a $6.5 million bonus on the way and I’m not even turning on the Tee Vee until it gets direct-depositted in my account.
AIG, who’ve caused the financial meltdown was enabled by George W. Bush, period.
AIG would not be criminals without George W. Bush’s help.
When are the republicans EVER going to be held accountable?
Like Congress listens to us..puh-leeze. Barry needs to get all street on their assez, and get this shit passed. No more wise-acre press conferences, fuck the “Blue Dogs”, expose them to the populace, and fuck the Repubs also.
Delicious: Yeah, I thought the cabinet was supposed to rotate jobs. GYPPED.
Barry, when you said “Change we can believe in”, I thought you meant “change right now”
I’m tired of being patient.
Poor Hopey, still thinking that if he organizes a bunch of citizens to come together and put pressure on politicians, his policies will pass. Doesn’t he know the only way to get that done is to attend dinners with the press, do what David Broder tells him to do, and give foot massages to Evan Bayh?
Love that royal ‘we’.
Obama needs to go on Dancing with the Stars, and American Idol, and How I Met Your Mother and the like. That’s what real America is watching, and that’s who he thinks he’s talking to.
Following Hopey blindly smacks of rethugs following Bush blindly and it all makes baby Jeebus cry, god damnit.
BillyClubb: That’s right Billy, change you can believe in. And Hopey will make sure that’s all you have left in your pocket.
Serolf Divad: I recommend you get your ass out of bed in order to stuff that bonus under the mattress.
C’mon Barry, I get about 3 pitches a week like this from “Kenyan government executives”.
wx insider: Yeah, you must make more than $250,000. I shudder at the thought of Walnuts & Phil “nation full of whiners” Gramm & Snowbilly Grifter being in charge right now. Jesus…
I’ve got a recovery plan — I’m going to become a derivatives trader then rob people blind until I can retire to a private hideaway where I’ll spend the rest of my life bitching about how nobody else is pulling their weight in society. Fix things? That’s for the little people.
I can’t watch videos at work - is he still doing the “knock on your neighbor’s door” thing? I live in Seattle. Knocking on your neighbor’s door is reserved for times when you notice that their house is burning down, and they haven’t responded to your SMS messages saying “Teh roof is on fire no rly it is.”
SayItWithWookies: Don’t forget raping women - you want to live up to Randian ideals, you need to get a-rapin’.
Custerwolf:
No way in hell, dude. It’s not the money, it’s the principle of the thing. They are all rich winners and we are all poor losers with inferior bootstrap pulling skillz. Winners do not lower themselves by conceding to the demands of the common rabble.
Actually, I lied, it is all about money. What, you think these people can make do with only one jewel encrusted yacht? Be reasonable.
AnnieGetYourFun: As long as I can take ‘em to dinner first. Not because I’m a nice guy or anything — I just get hungry a lot.
Looks like Cheney’s started his coup. Emergency broadcast test just cut over Our Dear Leader’s remarks on MSNBC.
Barry is right, we DO need to knock on our neighbor’s doors. And when we determine they are not home, we need to break into their homes, steal their good stuff, and force them to help expedite the recovery by having them replacing their stolen stuff. Its our national duty.
if any of this whining is remotely serious, we should just give the republicans all the government again. clearly the left doesn’t have the stomach for the job. oh some untrustworthy people did a yucky thing, i cry and cry. suck it up!
prophet1195: Chip Reid disapproves of your less than respectful tones to the former administration.
Who does this guy think he is? has become a standard opener for Wonkette posts.
It is synonymous with “Truck Nutz.”
OH AND KEEP DAT MUSLIM OUTTA MIE STATE. WE GOT ENOUGH OF ‘DEM INDIAN TYPES IN BERKELEY, DAMMIT.
GgQAWfrrrrSaa!1!!
Histories of ages past
Unenlightened shadows cast
Down through all eternity
The crying of humanity
It’s then when the hurdy gurdy man
Comes asking for your money
He’s trying to under cut the anti-war crowd. They’ve got marches planed for Saturday.
cranky: Take your jewel-encrusted yacht and sail off the edge of the world.
Here’s my idea on solving the deficit. We take Bernie Madoff, Liddy, and as many of the credit default cretins as we can find and PACK them into one cellblock. Then we put in TV cameras and charge $1 an hour for pay per view. The moola would roll into the Treasury.
Custerwolf: this doesn’t even make sense. yeah, only a wealthy leftie would think we should work more than 8 weeks on an agenda? huh?
if the fact that shitty people are shitty, and stay shitty, is so upsetting that people are seriously whining about b.o.’s timing. . . i really find that depressing, because we’re at the bottom of a dozen holes, how do you figure on getting out of them with out occasionally looking like a dork?
fighting for your fucking life is going to look pretty humiliating at some points, and everyone is so shy about looking stupid that it seems they’d rather we just slink away. wittily, of course, “truck nuts also”. puh-leez, if you didn’t Hopey was a dork, who would do dorkalicious things, and ask you to embarass yourselves a little, you weren’t paying attention. i also suspect that you need to have more than two quarters to rub together to be so damn dismissive.
a few of us are too fucked by this to give up on everything but our own charms.
Hooray, and they just installed the former economist at Citigroup (you know, the guy whose predictions were horribly wrong and destroyed the company) as Tim Geithner’s lovely assistant. If you check the biggest campaign contributors to Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, George W. Bush, John McCain, and yes, even the man himself, Barack Obama, you’re going to see a lot of the same people: Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, etc., etc. These guys cover themselves regardless of whether Republicans or Democrats hold the majority.
Mr. Herpes: mmm, pay per view lord of the flies with rich people! yes please!
then they could come out with “bush administration island”, set in Cuba of course!
you i like!
cranky: “this doesn’t even make sense…” That was a preface to your post, I’m assuming. Mine was non-sensical on purpose (the earth isn’t flat), yours seems to have a had a point encrypted somewhere.
How am I supposed to get off my couch on knock on doors when I have all of the AIG executives sucking on my titties?
No knockin’, head rockin’, inter-shockin’
Shootin’, cussin’, killin’, cryin’, lyin’
And bein’ white
But if you’re wise, no knocker
You’ll tell your no-knockin’ lackeys
Ha!
No knock on my brother’s head
No knock on my sister’s head
No knock on my brother’s head
No knock on my sister’s head
And double lock your door
Because soon someone may be no-knockin’
Ha, ha!
For you
I’m positive they were supposed to lose my email addy when Barry became president. Instead, I get Spam You Can Believe In.
Custerwolf: thank you for proving my point.
Mr. Herpes: total fuckin win
cranky:which was……????
cranky: Never mind - I just got it.
smashtheduck: Better keep an eye on your catalytic converter - that’ll be next.
cranky: Don’t get mad, man. People are just being snarky. I doubt they would prefer WALNUTS, although there may be PUMA in this pack. Who knows? Maybe even some Paultards.
Me, I just know that this country is completely and utterly fucked after 30 years of the conservatives and DLC-types, so I give Hopey credit for at least not being an utter douche. That’s enough. He’s not going to be able to really fix or change things, but I think, or I hope, he won’t make things worse. Let’s face it: FDR, at this point, was in another universe than the one we are in today. I doubt you could create even the goddamn FDIC today.
Sorry about the seriousness. I’m just a nihilist tool.
comradepaulson: Your the Midol to my cramps, man. Thanks.
sezme: Maybe he meant ‘we the People’, which I can never hear without thinking of Schoolhouse Rock and the Constitution song.
comradepaulson: i wasn’t mad! i was just sad and my original question was serious-ish, how much of this whining is for real? cuz i need to know, or might shoot myself in the head. like when you’re really fucked up and you need to say, “stop, this isn’t happening right? right? we’re just kidding right? no one is giving up right? i can’t go back man, i can’t go back!”
bush/reagan are my vietnam, i’m in the early stages of recovery and still very fragile.
cranky: I was blinded by your defeatist-sounding attitude about how there will always be shitty people - thus my response. (I re-read what you were actually saying, and of course I agree with your point.) However, I’ve dealt with far too many rich assholes (along with rich generous folks)to think these fuckers should slide. They should suffer, godamnit, and I say this as a person who didn’t even come close to making enough money to pay one thin dime of taxes towards the AIG bailout.
We do live in uncertain times. With Johnny, if he liked you, he asked you to the couch. But how is Barry to know whether Jay likes him enough, when Jay has no sign?
And will the band play “Hail to Chief” straight? When Johnny hosted the spiritual leader of Tibet, Doc had the boys play “Hello, Dolly!”
Has Barry been coached how to fiddle with his tie knot and mutter, “No respect, I get no respect — but how about those AIG bonuses?”
Can’t wait for Michelle on “Jeopardy”!
Custerwolf: You are welcome.
cranky: I have no idea how many Wonketters are feeling disillusioned by Hopey. Clearly, if you’re disillusioned within three months, you were way too hopeful to begin with. Hopey is 100 times better than anyone in the past thirty years and he’s still going to suck sometimes. (See current treatment of Chris Dodd and the AIG mess, for example.) That’s just how much “suck” is in our system. The Founders built it that way because they, clearly, sucked. In fact, they would have counted Hopey has 3/5 of a person. That’s an epic suck.
And you know what else sucks? It’s still the best system out there, until we finally get our robot overlords.
aww, we made up!
i’m starting to panic today because i think nothing will be done, because there isn’t focus on what to do.
i think Hopey has given up on the idea that he can get people to focus on redress and is moving on to dealing with budget. i actually think that is the right role for the administration, and i think looking to Hopey is the wrong choice. He has the executive wing relatively in hand and it’s shaping up in a way i can live with.
what i’d like to see is the same political force that put him into office pressed full force on the Congress, which is about as organized and directed as a house full of cats on fire. it’s part of my obsession with the idea that best shift in our political ethos would be away from repub/dem, to exec/leg/judicial, it would serve us better. i think they will shriek and winge and do nothing, because they are a disaster, and “we” have not been kicking their asses quite like we should.
basically, i’m losing my mind over here.
I’m with cranky. Obama seems to have a clue and and so far is making a decent attempt at fixing things but it’s the gutless wonders in congress and their enablers in the press who’ll probably kill the proverbial baby in the crib. I just think when it gets down to it, congress (well, mainly the Senate) will find some excuse to chicken out. See Bayh, Evan. All of which points to getting some people riled up enough to light a fire to those who lack balls and a spine. I personally am all set to take a dump and then mail it to Bayh in protest.
Custerwolf: I’ve been waiting for that show of patriotism since this whole debacle began. So far, nada.
Mr. Herpes: Can we use the women’s holding cell at the DC lockup? The toilet doesn’t flush. I’ve heard.
comradepaulson: Well done, sir/madam.
Lyndon Johnson would have grabbed that little
shit CEO from AIG by the balls and squeezed
every damn penny of those “bonuses” out of the
little shit’s nuts.
Nixon would have used the IRS to make his
life a living hell.
Clinton would get hummers from his wife and
every one of his female relatives past puberty.
This mocha bastard makes a speech.